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Regards /Joachim
Thomas, All,
On Thursday 06 August 2009 23:49:06 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
What about hosting crosstool-ng on some free software forge, like
Savannah, Gna, or something else ? This way, you wouldn't have to spend
time on system/network administration-related issues.
Well, that's part of the experiment! :-P And a challenging part, to say the least!
I'd like to be able to be self-hosted, and delegate as less as possible. Currently, only DNS records are external (on dyndns), and will almost certainly stay that way for a long time... Andof course I need an ISP.
The most obvious advantages are: - most important: I learn. - I'm dependent upon a very few external entities (only ISP and DNS) - I can customise/update the system at will (software versions...) - I can grant/veto access at will - I can run any server I wish (eg. VPN...)
The most obvious drawbacks are: - availability, but I'm working on that: - I have at least two physical machines able to host a copy of the server in a virtual machine, should the real server has a fatal HW failure (as is the case curently); starting a VM-server is a matter of seconds - the server is backed up by a UPS that can sustain a two-hour power outtage - the machine has one 80GiB disk for the system, and two 500GiB disks, one for storing live data, the other one will be acting as a /mirror/ that gets rsynced every hour, to serve as level-1 backups; both disks use a file system different from one to the other - OTOH, hot-swap HW is too expensive, so fixing the server would require some downtime - backups, that's being worked on: - I have an NSLU2 that I'll setup to do nightly backups onto a dedicated 500GiB HDD that will serve as level-2 backups - I also have a tape drive to store long-term, level-3 backups - bandwidth: being behind a DSL line limits my uploads to about 1Mibps, but that's bearable, crosstool-NG is not that big, and the hg protocol is quite efficient - it's expensive and time-consuming, but I enjoyed it so far! :-)
Regards, Yann E. MORIN.
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